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Definition of Backyard
1. Noun. The grounds in back of a house.
Definition of Backyard
1. Noun. A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. ¹
2. Noun. (colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go. ¹
3. Noun. (colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backyard
1. an area at the rear of a house [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backyard
Literary usage of Backyard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 57 Ways to Protect Your Home Environment (& Yourself) by Rick Weinzierl (1999)
"Before you create a backyard wilderness, however, check with your municipal ...
Plant selection As you select native plants for your backyard wilderness, ..."
2. Parents, Peers and Pot II: Parents in Action by Marsha Manatt (1996)
"... POWER IN GEORGIA: backyard ROOTS AND NATIONAL RAMIFICATIONS In August a group
of parents in Atlanta, Georgia, made the shocking discovery at a backyard ..."
3. Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes by Edward Sylvester Morse (1902)
"IV A backyard AFTER dinner we left the house by a backdoor and passed through a
large backyard. In this yard was a huge mound, at least twenty-five feet ..."
4. Poultry Breeding and Management by James Dryden (1916)
"backyard Poultry-Keeping.—Chickens may be kept on a city lot at a profit.
The waste food from the table of backyard EGG FARMING Clarence Hogan, ..."
5. Mary Howitt: An Autobiography by Mary Botham Howitt (1889)
"It had a backyard and farm-buildings of no mean order, seen through a stately
but somewhat ruinous entrance, conspicuously surmounted by a fresco painted ..."
6. The Nature of Landscape: A Personal Quest by Han Lorzing (2001)
"... A landscape in our backyard The garden of Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, Japan, must be
one of the most photographed gardens in the world. ..."
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